Desperate Measures

When Melody heard that she could not marry Donovan and that she would be stuck watching him love another woman, she burst out into ugly sobs. She cried and told Vivian everything that had happened.

The ugly look on Vivian's face only grew uglier and stormier when she heard what happened.

"I thought you had simply failed. I did not expect you to have him in your grasp and still let him escape. What